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Arts: Aboard Ken Kesey's Final Trip Ken Kesey, who died last weekend, was the magus of the counter- cultural explosion of the 1960s. Nick Hasted recalls him on his final tour of Britain, still joyfully anarchic, but often at odds with the alternative world that he had, in part, created
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When I heard the unexpected news of Ken Kesey's death from liver
cancer, aged 66, on the radio last Saturday, it didn't make me think
of the 1960s, or his great debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest (1962), or all the profound ways in which he changed the world
we live in.
Certainly, Kesey's trip across America in the psychedelic bus
Furthur in 1964, with his acolytes the Merry Pranksters, handing out
acid like Johnny Appleseed, as well as the multi-media Acid Tests he
conducted, make him a historic American hero to a degree that this
week's tributes didn't grasp. The mental leaps he ...
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; ...Pope John Paul II will beatify Karl...s last reigning emperor _ but the Vatican...beatification of Emperor Karl," said Rudolf...years to get the emperor beatified, the...sometimes called Charles I in the West, took the throne...
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Pope to beatify last Austrian emperor
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
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Nun, emperor among candidates for sainthood
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; VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II on Sunday moved five Catholics closer...including Austria's last reigning emperor and a German nun whose graphic visions...of World War I. Also known in the West as Charles I, he took the throne in 1916 and...
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Pope honors mystic nun said to have inspired gory scenes in Mel Gibson's film, Austria's last reigning emperor and three others
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...Dateline: VATICAN CITY Pope John Paul II on Sunday moved five Catholics closer...Christ" and Austria's last reigning emperor. Cheers went up in St. Peter...of World War I. Also known in the West as Charles I, he took the throne in 1916 and...
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Obituary: Charles Gray
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
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